It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.